Fence jumper into the white house. Members question Julia Pierson about the breach and whats being done to improve white house security. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee access to secure fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know money washington takes from them is well spent and second americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers. It is our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. This is our mission and todays hearing follows one of the most important parts of that mission. With 1. 5 billion dollars spent by the secret Servi
Protecting the first family in the white house. He has full confidence in the professionals to do their job. April. Josh, i want to ask you a question. Is there concern within the white house that when the leaves, that there is a little bit more of a relaxed attitude, as when he goes to camp davis or somewhere else . I see what youre getting to, and i think this is a legitimate line of angry. Line of inquiry. The fact that the first family was not at home, did that have by bearing on the response the secret service to the breach of the perimeter . This is among the things that will be part of the review that in response toed the breach of the perimeter fence. I will reserve judgment here and refer to the experts youre taking a careful look at this. Again, to the extent that the secret service can release the results of this report, there will obviously be parts they cannot release, but to the extent they are able to do so, they will investigate that. Was the president told himself how
We need to make sure the second isdest target on earth through with reality and in the minds of anyone who might take on the secret service to get to the president or first family. Without a recognized the member for his Opening Statement. Thank you. With an obvious premise. No individual should be allowed to feel scaled the fence at the white house, sprint across the north lawn, and burst into the residence of the first family with 11. No one. Our goal today is also clear, to determine how this happened and make sure it never happens again. This is our watch. This recent incident unfortunately causes many people a ask whether or not there is much broader problem with the secret service. Last night the Washington Post reported Omar Gonzalez made his way into the east room. Another incident in 2011 about a shooting raises more questions about the competency and culture of this delete agency. Most about this report is agents said they were hesitant. Agents in this agency said they were h
Revenue so we can get a hold on that issue. One of the examples, one thats got a lot of press not too long parking operations here and received a payment of 483 million to put into the endowment. The 483 million generates revenue every year that goes to support pack faculty but also scholarship support and other things. Those are things i think institutions have to look at, too, with creative ways to that fund the university that is not on the backs of students by simply increasing tuition every year. Those are the kinds of things we need to do. Real quickly because we only have a minute left. Diversity, andne how do you achieve that . Another great question. Diversity to us is on every single dimension. Diversity ofave a income backgrounds of our students. It means a diversity of representations of under represented minorities. A diversity of the countries that our students come from. So there is probably not a dimension that we do not look at when it comes to diversity, because we be
What we are doing is making sure that we are making steady progress. Heading up the infrastructure that will allow us to compete with massachusetts who are doing some of these things long before we were. In the last two quarters of 2013 when we outgrew every state in new england. Tom has made statements, things like not as many jobs as we said, thats wrong. Total privatesector job growth over the time of our administration is much more than 60,000. At the same time government has gotten smaller. Government has gotten smaller while i have been governor of the state of connecticut. Sure, we should be more efficient. Sure, we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. When i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the Largest Department spending 18 of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. Im sorry to cut you off. Now onto the rebuttal phase. Mr. Foley. Im glad the governor brought up his experience in stamford.